Research Article

Price Responsiveness of Cigarette Demand in US: Retail Scanner Data (1994–2007)

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for population, income, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and 100 percent smoke-free coverage, 1994–2007.

VariableMeanStd. dev.MinMax

Market population4,315,8883,238,290966,08720,000,000
Income
 Income ($ per capita)28,729.825,762.2917,709.0255,041.41
 Real income ($ per capita)33,586.465,295.5023,465.9956,560.95
Cigarettes
 Total cigarette sales ($)20,700,00010,300,0003,858,40663,200,000
 Cigarette sales ($ per capita)5.642.590.9815.80
 Real cigarette sales ($ per capita)6.713.191.0419.98
 Cigarette sales (pack)9,088,4535,342,387899,08629,200,000
 Cigarette sold (pack per capita)2.581.650.259.82
 Cigarette average price ($ per pack)2.590.881.225.36
 Cigarette average price (real $ per pack)3.000.881.585.64
Smokeless tobacco
 Smokeless tobacco price (real $)3.350.991.527.72
 Smokeless units sold (per capita)0.150.190.001.17
 Smokeless tobacco sales (real $ per capita)0.400.380.001.97
 Smokeless tobacco dollar sales1,120,9701,056,168174.125,894,168
 Smokeless tobacco unit sales4,96,258.906,07,831.10453766479
 Smokeless tobacco price2.860.931.156.72
 Smokeless dollar sales (per capita)0.340.3201.76
Clean indoor air laws (CIAL) coverage
 Workplace coverage (percentage)7.7%21.9%0%100%
 Restaurant coverage (percentage)14.1%32.7%0%100%
 Freestanding bar coverage (percentage)8.8%26.7%0%100%
 Any CIAL coverage (percentage)14.9%32.7%0%100%
 All CIAL coverage (percentage)2.9%14%0%100%